Knife and axe found on man after disturbance at Inverness Asda supermarket
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Police called to an early morning disturbance at Inverness's Asda store found a knife and an axe in a man's rucksack.
Christopher Thomson (30), described as a prisoner in Barlinnie but previously of Castle Heather Avenue, Inverness appeared via video link at Inverness Sheriff Court.
He admitted two charges of threatening or abusive behaviour and two of illegal possession of weapons.
As he had previously served a prison sentence, his solicitor advocate Clare Russell told the court that her instructions were to ask the court to proceed to a custodial sentence.
She said: "He had been to prison in 2015 after being sentenced to a year for assaulting his father whom he suspected of having something to do with the disappearance of his mother 30 years ago."
Hairdresser Heather Thomson remains an unsolved missing person's case.
Sheriff Lindsay Foulis heard that the first offence occurred on March 28 this year in Mackay Road, Inverness when Thomson shouted and swore at a woman who was passing him in the car park.
A month later, on April 24, at Asda's superstore, staff saw him standing on a worktop behind the customer service desk, shouting incoherently and making a threat against the partner of one of the employees there.
The police were called, Thomson was arrested and a search of his belongings revealed the knife and axe.
Ms Russell said: "He was very much intoxicated. He had been in a relationship for eight and a half years and was involved in a bicycle accident one-and-a-half years ago which has left him with poor physical and mental health.
"As a result of the relationship breakdown, he started self-medicating with drugs and alcohol."
Thomson was jailed for 10 months backdated to April 25 when he was first remanded.
